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The world's first steam turbine merchant ship, TS King Edward, was launched in 1901.She was a technological and commercial success, but was only a 502 GRT excursion steamship making short-sea trips in and around the Firth of Clyde, and her running costs – and hence passenger fares – were higher than those of her competitors with conventional reciprocating engines.
Incat ferry (800 passengers & 220 cars. 91.3 metres. 5,617 tons) BornholmerFærgen - Denmark to Sweden. Villum Clausen Rønne-Ystad, 47.7 knots. Passenger car ferry (1055 passengers and 215 cars). Leonora Christina Rønne-Ystad, 40 knots. Passenger car ferry (1400 passengers and 357 cars). Stena Line HSS class 900 (High-speed Sea Service)
The service was operated by one passenger cruise ferry which offered overnight cabin accommodations, as well as automobile and freight transport. The ferry operated year-round across the North Sea and was usually an overnight sailing. In the summer the service was mostly tailored to the tourist market, and the timetable altered to reflect extra ...
BornholmerFærgen (to Denmark, Germany and Sweden) Bristol Ferry Boats (in Bristol Harbour) Brittany Ferries (UK to France, Spain and Ireland) Brownsea Island Ferries Ltd (Poole Harbour) Caledonian MacBrayne ; Caremar (Italy) Color Line (Norway to Denmark, Germany and Sweden) Condor Ferries (Channel Islands, UK)
Alternative fuels are becoming more widespread on ferries. The fastest passenger ferry in the world Buquebus, runs on LNG, while Sweden's Stena converted one of its ferries to run on both diesel and methanol in 2015. [66] Both LNG and methanol reduce CO 2 emissions considerably and replace costly diesel fuel.
The first fast ferry introduced by Red Funnel was the Sea Coach Island Enterprise, a motor cruiser capable of carrying 11 passengers at 20 knots. She was built by the British Power Boat Company in Hythe , and operated from 1933 to 1938.
The world’s first hydrogen-powered commercial passenger ferry will start operating on San Francisco Bay as part of plans to phase out diesel-powered vessels and reduce planet-warming carbon ...
In Silja Line traffic between 1993 and 2013. The largest cruiseferry in the world between 1992 and 2002. Largest ferry in the world in terms of number of beds and passenger capacity Silja Symphony: 203 m (666 ft) 58,377 2,850 22 kn (41 km/h; 25 mph) 1991 Masa-Yards Turku New Shipyard, Finland: Silja Line Sweden: Stockholm - Helsinki Silja Serenade